It is a sign of our times that such an awkward term as "blogging" should integrate itself so quickly and so powerfully into our culture. This session will acquaint educators with the concept of weblogs (blogs), ways that they are affecting many aspects of our culture, and strategies for using weblogs to promote better teaching and learning. Participants will also learn how to provide a safe and secure blogging experience for students. ----
On July 11, Wesley Fryer hosted a Skypecast discussion involving as many as 26 educators from around the world. Here, you can listen to the podcast and read the blog entries for this very powerful event:
Blog'What Questions
When reading or writing blogs, ask these questions.
What did you or the writer read in order to write this blog entry?
What do you think is important about the blog entry?
What are other sides or viewpoints of issue?
What do you or the writer want the readers to know, believe, or do?
What has not been said in the blog entry?
About 21 million or 87% of those ages 12-17 use the Internet, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The results highlight that this is a generation comfortable with content-creating technology. Teens are eager to share their thoughts, experiences, and creations with the wider Internet population. Some key findings:
33% of online teens share their own creative content online, such as artwork, photos, stories or videos.
32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.
22% report keeping their own personal webpage.
19% of online teens keep a blog, and 38% of online teens read blogs.
19% of Internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.
- <small>Johnson, Doug. "Pew report on teen-age blogging." Online posting. 4 Nov 2005. WWWEDU. 07 Nov 2005. <http://yahoogroups.com/group/wwwedu>.</small>- Lenhart, Amanda & Mary Madden. "Teen Content Creators & Consumers." Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2 Nov. 2005. PEW Research Center. 07 Nov. 2005 <http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=166>.---- Educator's Guide to Podcasting
What if we could not only access information on demand, but also produce and distribute our own media content richly and compellingly to a global audience when it pleases us. Video/Audio on demand has long been a standard of the twenty-first century information environment. But what if we could not only access information on demand, but also produce and distribute our own media content richly and compellingly to a global audience when it pleases us. PodCasting is a rapidly growing practice whereby individuals or small groups can produce and broadcast (podcast) radio programs that include music, talk, interviews, and web-based visual support materials to the world. Learn what PodCasting is, its history, how it is used, how to PodCast your own audio programs, and how podcasting can help students learn. Just Added: A podcast of Dr. Tim Tyson's presentation at the November Learning, Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, July 2006. Web Sites
An Educator's Guide to RSS
Only rarely does a technology emerge that we know, out right, is going to change things. RSS is one such innovation. Only rarely does a technology emerge that we know, out right, is going to change things. RSS is one such innovation. Although it is still evolving, RSS is already helping educators to become better informed on issues of professional and instructional interest and to publish content to students and other classroom stakeholders in powerful new ways. Forget about finding information. We're now training information to find us. We make daily use of the World Wide Web. We browse around in an information environment that has been constructed and mapped by web masters from around the world. RSS enables us to start mapping our own trips to information, selecting sources that are especially valuable, and then have those sources notive us, when the information has been changed or added to. Web Sites
An Educator's Guide to Wikis
Wikis have been around for more than 10 years. Yet, as a valuable tool for educators, they have only been on the radar for a 18 months or so. It is a simply technology that provide for easy collaborative web publishing. A wiki page features an edit button that the reader can click, revealing all of the content of the page into a web form, where the content can be edited. Wikis (The Wikipedia Asside) are typically used by a small community of people who collaborate together to produce a web document of mutual value. Web Sites
It is a sign of our times that such an awkward term as "blogging" should integrate itself so quickly and so powerfully into our culture. This session will acquaint educators with the concept of weblogs (blogs), ways that they are affecting many aspects of our culture, and strategies for using weblogs to promote better teaching and learning. Participants will also learn how to provide a safe and secure blogging experience for students. ----
On July 11, Wesley Fryer hosted a Skypecast discussion involving as many as 26 educators from around the world. Here, you can listen to the podcast and read the blog entries for this very powerful event:
When reading or writing blogs, ask these questions.
- 33% of online teens share their own creative content online, such as artwork, photos, stories or videos.
- 32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.
- 22% report keeping their own personal webpage.
- 19% of online teens keep a blog, and 38% of online teens read blogs.
- 19% of Internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.
- <small>Johnson, Doug. "Pew report on teen-age blogging." Online posting. 4 Nov 2005. WWWEDU. 07 Nov 2005. <http://yahoogroups.com/group/wwwedu>.</small>- Lenhart, Amanda & Mary Madden. "Teen Content Creators & Consumers." Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2 Nov. 2005. PEW Research Center. 07 Nov. 2005 <http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=166>.----Educator's Guide to Podcasting
What if we could not only access information on demand, but also produce and distribute our own media content richly and compellingly to a global audience when it pleases us. Video/Audio on demand has long been a standard of the twenty-first century information environment. But what if we could not only access information on demand, but also produce and distribute our own media content richly and compellingly to a global audience when it pleases us. PodCasting is a rapidly growing practice whereby individuals or small groups can produce and broadcast (podcast) radio programs that include music, talk, interviews, and web-based visual support materials to the world. Learn what PodCasting is, its history, how it is used, how to PodCast your own audio programs, and how podcasting can help students learn. Just Added: A podcast of Dr. Tim Tyson's presentation at the November Learning, Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, July 2006. Web Sites
An Educator's Guide to RSS
Only rarely does a technology emerge that we know, out right, is going to change things. RSS is one such innovation. Only rarely does a technology emerge that we know, out right, is going to change things. RSS is one such innovation. Although it is still evolving, RSS is already helping educators to become better informed on issues of professional and instructional interest and to publish content to students and other classroom stakeholders in powerful new ways. Forget about finding information. We're now training information to find us. We make daily use of the World Wide Web. We browse around in an information environment that has been constructed and mapped by web masters from around the world. RSS enables us to start mapping our own trips to information, selecting sources that are especially valuable, and then have those sources notive us, when the information has been changed or added to. Web Sites
An Educator's Guide to Wikis
Wikis have been around for more than 10 years. Yet, as a valuable tool for educators, they have only been on the radar for a 18 months or so. It is a simply technology that provide for easy collaborative web publishing. A wiki page features an edit button that the reader can click, revealing all of the content of the page into a web form, where the content can be edited. Wikis (The Wikipedia Asside) are typically used by a small community of people who collaborate together to produce a web document of mutual value. Web Sites